"' Cotton "'is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus " Gossypium " in the family of " Malvaceae ".
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Genetic studies indicate that it is most closely related to the native American species " Gossypium barbadense ", thus it is surmised that a seed arrived from South America on the wind, in the droppings of a bird or associated with debris by sea.
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This, coupled with the emergence of American cotton as a superior type ( due to the longer, stronger fibers of the two domesticated native American species, " Gossypium hirsutum " and " Gossypium barbadense " ), encouraged British traders to purchase cotton from slaves.
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This, coupled with the emergence of American cotton as a superior type ( due to the longer, stronger fibers of the two domesticated native American species, " Gossypium hirsutum " and " Gossypium barbadense " ), encouraged British traders to purchase cotton from slaves.
For example, one study reports 12 sites in the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh providing clear evidence of agriculture of pulses ( Vigna radiata and Macrotyloma uniflorum ), millet-grasses ( Brachiaria ramosa and Setaria verticillata ), wheats ( Triticum dicoccum, Triticum durum / aestivum ), barley ( Hordeum vulgare ), hyacinth bean ( Lablab purpureus ), pearl millet ( Pennisetum glaucum ), finger millet ( Eleusine coracana ), cotton ( Gossypium sp . ), linseed ( Linum sp . ), as well as gathered fruits of Ziziphus and two Cucurbitaceae.
